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The Romanians preferred the EU-supporter of the Central and the far right euroseptic on Sunday to elect a large number of countries in the polling booths.
About 25 percent of the country’s 18 million voters dropped their ballot in the local time of the local time, about 1 May the first round of about 4 May, which was on the top of the ultratennationalist George Simion Including 41 percent of the vote.
But Nikuoor Dan, The Gunch The one who has thrown his opponents’ past to qualify for the run-off with 21 percent is caught in the opinion survey and is relying on the huge voting for him to press the fibers.
“It’s a turning point on Sunday casting his ballot,” I voted for a European direction, not for Romania’s isolation. “
The country has been associated with a political crisis since November, while the short-learned far candidate Calin Georgesku The President won the first round of the election, which was subsequently rejected on charges of Russian intervention. Georgesku was forbidden to run again and is under criminal investigation to violate the campaign and to try to destroy the democratic order.
Simian has promised to appoint Georgesku as the Prime Minister when he becomes president. On Sunday, the pair voted together, Georgesku said he had voted for the traditional family values and “healing and forgiveness”. Simian said he had left his ballot “against the injustice committed against the Romanian people.”
Bucharest’s voters were worried about the results of this election.
“I hope we can put this horrible time back and forth for everyone and do it in a way that will push Romania to the future, not the past,” the father of the two said Rezvan Popsku. “We need change, but we need change for better, not bad.”
Simian’s first round win is already Political and economic turmoilWith the resignation of the Prime Minister, the Romanian Liu Euro and the country are fighting to increase the debt in the international market. Romania operates the highest budget deficit in the EU and its credit rating is just one step above the junk status, analysts say that Simion warns a deeper crisis in the victory.
Independent political consultant Radu Magdin says, “At the last moment, the two camps have huge integration and there are really strong participation.” “If the participation is over 605 percent, it will probably be in favor of the outleter, Dan. It will be tight.”
He also added that the big Romanian expatriates – where the voting started on Friday and more votes were registered on Sunday afternoon than the first round – the result could be swept in any way. The polling stations were closed at 9pm local time, when the exit polls were released.
The semi-presidential system of Romania gives more power to the head of the state than in many European countries in the country, the President set foreign and protection policies, participated in the EU leaders’ meeting and made the latest statement on Ukraine’s military support.
Simion was suspicious of Ukraine, which shared a 600 -kilometer border with Romania and said that it had to stop support only with the permanent war. Firm is committed to helping Ukraine in Ukraine and Romania is steady EU and NATO ally.
Former President Tryan Basesku on Sunday said the vote was a referendum for the western way to the country since the fall of communism.
“Perhaps, today, people will decide whether it was good,” said Basesku. “If the option is Moscow, one candidate will be voted, if the option is the Atlantic, the other candidate will be voted. This is a decision -day day.”
